material implication


noun Logic.

Origin of material implication

First recorded in 1900–05

British Dictionary definitions for material implication

material implication

noun logic

the truth-functional connective that forms a compound sentence from two given sentences and assigns the value false to it only when its antecedent is true and its consequent false, without consideration of relevance; loosely corresponds to the English if … then
a compound sentence formed with this connective